“Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!” (Psalm 27:14, NKJV). The repetition here isn’t accidental. Wait on the Lord is said twice, as if the psalmist knows how easily this instruction gets abandoned partway through.
This waiting isn’t passive. It’s paired directly with courage and strength, an active, engaged kind of waiting rather than simply enduring time passing.
It’s worth noticing how tempting it is to give up on waiting right before the strengthening this verse promises actually arrives.
Where have you been tempted to stop waiting prematurely, right when this verse’s repeated instruction is to keep waiting a little longer?